Biographical Info

Frederick Shic, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Yale
Child Study Center. Dr. Shic's current research interests include
applications of eye-tracking to the study of the social and cognitive
development in infants, toddlers, and children with ASD, the use of magnetic
resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in the investigation of the neurochemical bases of
ASD, and the exploration of new technologies and methodologies for enriching
both our understanding of ASD and the lives of children with ASD and their
families. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Shic was an associate research
scientist under Dr. Katarzyna Chawarska, director of the Infant and Toddlers
Developmental Disabilities Clinic and the Yale Early Social Cognition
Laboratory. Prior to this, Dr. Shic completed
an NIMH T32 training program in childhood neuropsychiatric disorders led Drs.
James Leckman and Elena Grigorenko. Dr.
Shic received his doctorate in Computer Science from Yale University and an
undergraduate degree in Engineering and Applied Sciences from the California
Institute of Technology. During his graduate work, Dr. Shic developed
computational and mathematical approaches for analyzing eye-tracking data, with
a focus on what these techniques can tell us about the social and cognitive
development of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Prior to
this, Dr. Shic was software engineer at the Sony Interactive Studios of
America, and, later, a researcher at the Huntington Medical Research
Institutes, where he conducted research in 1H and 13C magnetic resonance
spectroscopy (MRS), developing techniques for quantifying and visualizing brain
metabolism and neurochemistry.